Bull's Head and Mermaid - The Bernstein Project - Österreichische ...
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Ill. 4: <strong>The</strong> 4,475 sites appearing in the <strong>Bernstein</strong> databases where paper was produced, written on or used in other ways between the<br />
14 th <strong>and</strong> 19 th century.<br />
termark databases, a so-called <strong>Bernstein</strong> ‘dissemination kit’<br />
is being offered. It allows the easy installation of a preconfigured<br />
database, augmented with programs for image enhancement<br />
<strong>and</strong> measurement. This enables holders of<br />
watermark data to create their own, <strong>Bernstein</strong> compatible<br />
watermark databases. <strong>The</strong> ‘dissemination kit’ is free, multilingual<br />
<strong>and</strong> user-friendly.<br />
New watermark databases have been created <strong>and</strong> some<br />
of them also made available online since the application for<br />
the <strong>Bernstein</strong> project in 2005. A list of such collections can<br />
be found in <strong>Bernstein</strong>’s document management system<br />
(http://www.bernstein.oeaw.ac.at/twiki/bin/view/Main/PaperDatabases).<br />
<strong>The</strong> aim of a follow-up project to <strong>Bernstein</strong> is, of course,<br />
the inclusion of additional datasets, but also the digitalization<br />
of the most important printed watermark catalogues,<br />
which still remain important sources of reference material.<br />
<strong>Bernstein</strong> is a partner in the project ‘Europeana – <strong>The</strong> European<br />
digital library, museum <strong>and</strong> archive’. Europeana’s<br />
goal is to create a portal website that offers direct access to<br />
millions of digital objects (film footage, photographs, paint-<br />
102<br />
ings, music, maps, newspapers, manuscripts, etc.) (see<br />
http://europeana.eu).<br />
Literature: Erastov, <strong>The</strong> Beta-radiographic Technique.<br />
<strong>Bernstein</strong> Technology<br />
M.S. / E.W. (M.S. / E.W. / L.D. / C.P.-K.)<br />
<strong>The</strong> objective of the <strong>Bernstein</strong> <strong>Project</strong> is to create an integrated<br />
European digital environment for the history of paper.<br />
<strong>The</strong> following four watermarks databases were already<br />
available online via the internet before the start of the project:<br />
Piccard-Online, WILC, WZMA <strong>and</strong> NIKI.<br />
In order to create an integrated system (the <strong>Bernstein</strong><br />
portal), these existing watermarks databases have been<br />
connected by means of a common <strong>and</strong> uniform workspace<br />
to allow a synchronous search within all four databases.